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AI Song Contest returns for 2022
Good news for fans of AI-generated pop: the AI Song Contest will return for 2022! The AI Song Contest is all about collaborating creatively with AI, and anyone can take part. The organisers have announced that the deadline for entries for this year's competition is 1 June 2022. Teams must register by 15 March 2022. The winners of the 2021 competition were M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. with their song Listen To Your Body Choir.
Humans struggle to distinguish between real and AI-generated faces
According to a new paper, AI-generated faces have become so advanced that humans now cannot distinguish between real and fake more often than not. "Our evaluation of the photorealism of AI-synthesized faces indicates that synthesis engines have passed through the uncanny valley and are capable of creating faces that are indistinguishable--and more trustworthy--than real faces," the researchers explained. Video, audio, text, and imagery generated by generative adversarial networks (GANs) are increasingly being used for nonconsensual intimate imagery, financial fraud, and disinformation campaigns. The generator will start with random pixels and will keep improving the image to avoid penalisation from the discriminator. This process continues until the discriminator can no longer distinguish a synthesised face from a real one.
La veille de la cybersécurité
These A.I. faces are so realistic, humans can't tell the difference, a new study Computers have become very, very good at generating photorealistic images of human faces. What could possibly go wrong? A study published last week in the academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms just how convincing "faces" produced by artificial intelligence can be. In that study, more than 300 research participants were asked to determine whether a supplied image was a photo of a real person or a fake generated by an A.I. The human participants got it right less than half the time.
A.I. face study reveals a shocking new tipping point for humans
Computers have become very, very good at generating photorealistic images of human faces. What could possibly go wrong? A study published last week in the academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms just how convincing "faces" produced by artificial intelligence can be. In that study, more than 300 research participants were asked to determine whether a supplied image was a photo of a real person or a fake generated by an A.I. The human participants got it right less than half the time.
The best tools for developing voice user interfaces
A voice user interface, or VUI (pronounced VOO-hee), is described as a technology that allows people to interact with a computer or device using spoken commands. VUI technology is evolving much faster than its predecessors (think keyboards, mice and touchscreens). It's estimated that 94 million people own a smart speaker in the U.S. alone, and anyone who has used a mobile phone or TV remote in the last five years knows stand alone smart speakers aren't the only place where voice user interfaces are prevalent. A lot of this growth can be attributed to the technology itself. The artificial intelligence that powers the natural language understanding (NLU) behind the voice-powered experiences of giants like Apple, Amazon and Google is nothing short of amazing, but it's not just the remarkable technology that is driving the growth. Consider that we as human beings have been using spoken language for no less than 200,000 years (by most accounts).
Amazon.com: Deep Learning: A Visual Approach eBook : Glassner, Andrew S. : Kindle Store
Andrew Glassner is a Senior Research Scientist at Weta Digital, where he combines deep learning and computer graphics to help artists produce amazing visual effects for movies and television. Glassner has served as Papers Chair of the SIGGRAPH '94 Papers Committee, Founding Editor of the Journal of Computer Graphics Tools, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics. A popular speaker, Glassner has delivered invited addresses to groups around the world on topics ranging from computer graphics and deep learning to story structure and narrative. Glassner has written and directed live-action and animated films, and was creator-writer-director of an online multiplayer murder-mystery game for The Microsoft Network. He has written novels and screenplays, and is developing a serialized story for podcast.
How to deliver ultra-low power ML for more effective embedded vision - Embedded.com
Machine learning algorithms have opened up a realm of possibilities to enable vision embedded in products that make our home, workspaces and the places in between safer and more efficient. To truly realize the potential of smart vision in more use cases, developers need more power-efficient, and more flexible embedded solutions that can operate on batteries, be easy to install and maintain, and still deliver the vision performance required to provide effective and intelligent sensing of the things we want to detect and monitor. New advances in ML modeling and processing hold the key to widespread adoption of smart cameras. Affordable remote visual monitoring used to mean an infrared motion detector: inexpensive, autonomous, but not necessarily effective. A friend of mine recently protected his back yard with a set of internet-connected video cameras.